What Is Radical Behaviorism

Radical behaviorism was founded by B.F. Skinner, and radical behaviorism is known as experimental analysis of behavior which is the radical explanation of psychological phenomena. This was supported by evidence which was physiological and based on human behavior. Radical behaviorism believes that the main cause of behavior is the environment. Søren Kierkegaard was considered the ‘Father of Existentialism. Existentialism is the emphasis on existence, choice, and freedom which is based upon the individual. Fallon believed that existentialism and radical behaviorism had similarities, and Fallon was able to see the connection between the two unlike other individuals. Other people in the field of psychology, struggled to make a connection between existentialism and radical behaviorism which was why Fallon
Skinner believed in primary experience which existentialists believed in as well. Skinner believed that other individuals were over complicating experiences which were easy to explain, and the existentialists agreed with Skinner on what he said which meant that this was a similarity between existentialists and radical behaviorism. Skinner believed that people needed to build their theories upon actual studies and that people should take action instead of making a theory and not researching the theory, and the existentialists agreed with Skinner which showed a similarity between radical behaviorism and existentialists. Skinner preferred inductive reasoning over deductive reasoning due to the way he thought theories should be based upon actual studies which the existentialists also believed in. Skinner was against traditional psychological approaches; in other words, he was rebellious. The existentialists were also against the traditional psychological approaches which makes radical behaviorism and existentialism similar because they both disagreed with the traditional